K. Palágyi Sylvia szerk.: Balácai Közlemények 1997/5. (Veszprém, 1997)

STRMCNIK GULIC, MIRA: Roman Use of Area in prehistoric Space - Őskori lelőhelykörzet római kori igénybevétele

Hallstatt tumuli. The Pivola-Razvanje tumulus cemetery is unique also with regard to its dimension, diverse grave shapes and the extraordinary size of the tumuli. Let me mention as an example the old Hallstatt princely burial in the tumulus at Razvanje (Fig. 1) for which Mrs. Iva Curk means „that somewhere here must be the roots of the Norico-Pannonian tumuli", though many questions, of course, are still open. Fig. 1. RAZVANJE, tumulus 1. ábra. Halomsír sírkamrával To sum up: The tumulus had a round plan, its original size was 26 m. We investigated the central part of the tumulus where the construction was made of drylaid broken stones and the bottom paved with stone slabs. The grave vault showed a slight trapeziod shape, its size was 7.60 m. The height of the preserved walls varied from 1.2 m to 2 m, most suprising was the thickness of the walls which were in some places slightly damaged but reached nevertheless a thickness of up to 1.90 m (Fig. 2). Despite the still preserved Pivola-Razvanje tumuli which differ from the Norico-Pannonian ones already in their size and distribution, the tumulus cemetery under the Postela hillfort most probably dates back entirely to the prehistoric period, should recent investigations not prove otherwise. Here we have in mind particularly the neighbouring Hallstatt hillfort at Creta where Mr. Stanko Pahic on the site of the prehistoric tumuli found that some tumuli belonged to the Roman period. Thus in the tumulus No. 30 in the eastern lower part of the cemetery (height